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Best set up for emulation on 15 year old PC hardware? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 month ago by korendian@lemmy.zip to c/emulation@lemmy.world

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I just stumbled upon a computer on the garbage that has a GTX 970. Unsure of the cpu, but it's an MSI Z97 pc mate motherboard, so 4th or 5th gen intel. I also have a PC that my friend gave me when they moved that has an R9 290x graphics card and a gigabyte Z97x gaming motherboard. I need to plug them into see what the actual CPUs are, but they should be fairly similar, considering they both seem to be built for gaming.

Could any of this hardware be used to make a good emulation box? What do you think would be the best combo out of all of this? Just based on specs, I'm thinking the best would be the GTX 970 on the gigabyte motherboard, then just pick whichever of the two cpus are better out of the two, and max out the ram between whatever the two have. As far as software, I'm thinking I will go with batocera.

Any thoughts on this, or things I might be missing? What games could I expect to be able to emulate on this? I'm hoping for everything up to wii/xbox one/ps3. Is that a reasonable expectation?

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[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Tested emulation on a laptop from 2010. Iirc on Sony's side, PS1 was the limit, and for Nintendo, NDS games would run but with the fans running at max speed. Could be good, I think, for up to 16/32-bit console games and 2000's PC games, though being likely a desktop, it probably can run a bit more than the one I tested.

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 2 points 1 month ago

Also on a 2015 laptop, 2D PS3 games would run for me at normal speeds only with big image quality downgrades, and 3D ones would be a slideshow.